International Military Interventions

HAMPTON — As Tim Whitmore sees it, setting aside part of Labor Day to commemorate the Korean War makes sense. There is a connection.

The war ramped up quickly after communist North Korea pushed into South Korea on June 25, 1950. It surprised the South Koreans and some U.S. troops stationed there. The U.S. quickly moved to aid South Korea under the auspices of the United Nations. The resulting three-year conflict became a bloody stalemate.

World War II had ended five years before hostilities broke out. American industry had pivoted from its wartime footing. Yet thousands of Americans dropped what they were doing and answered the call of President Harry S....

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